Constitution
Dumping democracy: Republicans embrace ‘independent state legislatures’ theory to overturn votes
December 15, 2022Far-right state lawmakers say the Constitution gives them the right to stiff voters. Legal experts say that’s bogus.
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Constitutional democracy…hanging by a red thread
December 6, 2022The latest from People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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Top Republican leaders silent after Trump calls for terminating Constitution
December 5, 2022Randi Weingarten, speaking for the American Federation of Teachers, calls the former president a “threat to the republic.”
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The U.S. Constitution: Bad for public health?
June 16, 2022Delegates to the Constitutional Convention sought to protect wealth and private property; public health was not on their agenda.
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Congress must reclaim its constitutional authority to subpoena witnesses
October 18, 2021Nothing in the Constitution says the legislative branch must go to the administrative or judicial branches to compel testimony.
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